WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from July 2, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:52pm Flash Strap: hellllllo explorers
	7:00pm doctorjazz: Hellllo, Flash!
	7:00pm passiflora: listening over birdsong in the park
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hi Flllash and exxplorers!
	7:02pm Carmichael: Heya Flash and holidayers.
	🥁 7:02pm Aitch: Nice day for a sail.
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! Hello Passiflora & birds! Hi Chresti!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Welcome aboard Carm & Aitch
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: Wooooo! How dooooo, all of you?
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hello James! trying to get my sailin' smooth here, how about yourself
	7:05pm listener james from westwood: Managing as best one can, as always with greater ease with WFMU on in the room!
	🥁 7:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kids.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: hiya Rev
	🥁 7:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lotta Disco of late? Summer thing?
	7:10pm Flash Strap: great production on this Lyn Christopher man
	🥁 7:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well if so '73 was ahead of the curve...
	🥁 7:11pm WR: Hi all drummer explorers. Evan, the artwork is sorta like Dali but more raw than anything I remember from him. Seems like something from some one with vocabulary of Dali and Max Ernst or something.
	🥁 7:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Deffo Dali - bit Muralist - Bosch even here or there...
	7:14pm Flash Strap: Hi WR, it's Masson, who was just as big in the movement as Dali or Ernst, so that makes sense; at that time Surrealism was much more collectivist with regards to individual aesthetic as well
	7:15pm Flash Strap: Masson the great proponent of "automatic drawing", hugely influential on Dali's own Paranoiac-critical method
	7:20pm Flash Strap: forgot about this Eric Lou Root for a long time, putting it on again it's still incredibly awesome
	7:21pm Frog Mover: Evening y'all! Nothin like some good Root
	7:21pm Flash Strap: Hey there Frog Mo
	🥁 7:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Interesting ! Amusical Eelektric Gittar abuse - now we're in my little wheelhouse...
	7:23pm TDK60: What's happnin?
	🥁 7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Interesting re Masson. Cheers.
	7:25pm Flash Strap: Hey TDK!
	7:26pm Flash Strap: @Rev: I think you'd really dig Masson's stuff actually, highly demented
	7:26pm Flash Strap: also demented: that Root guitar abuse, I agree
	7:27pm Flash Strap: "might I remind you, the studio real cloudy"
	7:29pm Little Danny: Hey Flash, hey all
	7:39pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	7:41pm Little Danny: This Soviet electronic ambience is all brand new to me, I wonder what kinda synths they're using?
	7:41pm Flash Strap: I wonder too - that first track was the Synthy-100 though
	7:43pm Little Danny: I'm lovin' it all either way. There's something indefinably '80s Soviet era about it to me, maybe it's the guitar tones
	7:44pm Flash Strap: definitely
	7:44pm Flash Strap: here's the cover for the next selection, speaking of indefinably '80s Soviet era: img.discogs.com...
	7:46pm Frog Mover: Diggin this Soviet funk!
	7:47pm Little Danny: Oh wow yes
	7:47pm Flash Strap: me too froggy
	🥁 7:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Watching 'How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin' (which reportedly even Gorbachev acknowledges) - & the lengths they went to then to create Gittars. They stole Stalinist loudspeakes off poles - &tc. Quite a doc.
	🥁 7:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...earlier decades...
	🥁 7:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Eventually the State just went into the record biz...
	🥁 7:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Before that just getting Music was like Drugs here...
	7:54pm Flash Strap: next up a little synth from Bulgaria: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 7:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ....trying for a Synth / Voix de Bulgare pun but nuthin'...
	7:59pm Flash Strap: there ya go pal
	🥁 7:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's them!
	8:00pm Little Danny: Is there a music theory name for this kind of (ultra-close?) harmony?
	8:01pm melinda: Hi gang!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: not sure LD, but I'd like to know
	8:03pm Flash Strap: simply one of my very favorite albums, this
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Do they not have their own 'half Eastern' scale - correlating to their unique geography?
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - intervals...
	8:09pm Flash Strap: Czukay's compositions on this LP meander in this beautiful way, they feel unpredictable to me no matter how many times I've heard them
	8:11pm Flash Strap: of course we have Liebezeit on drums here, but I think on this track we have Czukay on virtually every other instrument
	8:11pm Flash Strap: & editing/producing naturally. tho Conny Plank is credited as an advisor
	🥁 8:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Even if they're all you - having to track everything together thru those meanders...
	🥁 8:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...called a Composer I reckon...
	8:17pm TDK60: Groovy stuff.
	🥁 8:19pm chresti: Yeah.
	8:20pm Flash Strap: man this one's a classic for a reason
	8:20pm TDK60: love unusual bass sounds.
	8:21pm Little Danny: Motorik's platonic ideal.
	8:22pm melinda: So good.
	8:22pm Flash Strap: @LD: truly
	🥁 8:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Somehow them calling themselves 'New' has never become ironic...
	8:23pm Little Danny: @RR63: truly a transcendent project, Neu! Beyond reproach in my book.
	8:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, what's Neu!?
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Ken! imagining a cover of What's Neu! Püssykat that's 11 minutes long and has a perfect motorik beat
	8:26pm Flash Strap: a Tom Jones Vocoder album
	8:29pm colin: Great show, really enjoying it. Thanks Ken
	8:30pm Flash Strap: Hi Colin
	🥁 8:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think of Cope calling Stereolab 'French Jazz' & Krautrock pretenders...tho' I am FrancoAmerican & love Jazz & Stereolab.
	8:42pm Flash Strap: crucial use of mini-moog in a lot of Guelewar / Bai Janha stuff. really visceral sound
	8:44pm Flash Strap: Bai Janha, nicknamed "Sweet Fingers" btw
	🥁 8:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If I were on a track with an ensemble this rhymically intricate but groovy & loose - I would think it a real high point of my life!
	8:47pm Flash Strap: seriously
	🥁 8:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So together but such an imminent recording.
	8:51pm Flash Strap: I agree, they're so vivid and intense to listen to
	8:54pm Flash Strap: vocals here by Ali Harb, I believe. Guitar by Banha
	8:56pm Flash Strap: it might actually be Papa Touray on vocals. not super familiar with Ifang Bondi's lineup
	🥁 8:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: First exposure to any Vocal remotely comparable probably Hugh Masekala in Monterey Pop film sounding loud & angry but soulful - always blew my mind as a little kid.
	9:02pm Flash Strap: This album is Bai Janha with a group of somewhat unpolished younger musicians, very loose and experimental session. I've seen a a few reviewers deride it's "amateurish" elements but I've always adored it. pulsing with vitality I say
	🥁 9:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah thx to whoever recorded these!
	9:04pm TDK60: This is hopping along. I dig it.
	9:06pm Flash Strap: i love this record so much... i'm loving it more with each minute, this evening
	🥁 9:09pm chresti: I love this kora.
	9:09pm Flash Strap: following this kora solo, a massive super-amplified workout on likembe from Zaire
	9:10pm Flash Strap: @chresti: me too, it's so bloody elegant
	🥁 9:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Should listen to some African music every day. Be very healthy.
	9:11pm Little Danny: This is great
	9:12pm Little Danny: This too is great!
	9:13pm TDK60: I see (saw) some kora guys playing on subway platforms; must be noisy to focus, but most have amps.
	9:15pm Flash Strap: these guys from Zaire generally play for specific tribal events, such as mourning, etc. - depending on the prestige of the family involved, often for as long as a week at a time. truly endurance music. this track is a morning song - instrumental so as to give the singers a little time to rest after singing all night. this particular ensemble actually hails from Angola
	9:17pm Little Danny: GOOD MORNING, ZAIRE!
	9:18pm Flash Strap: crazy homemade amplifier set up, great blown-out guitar mic sound on the likembe, pushed through a wall of six speakers
	9:19pm Flash Strap: love the cover of this cassette: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 9:19pm Aitch: A lovely winter morning here in Sydney, enjoying the show as I work.
	9:20pm TDK60: Well, this energetic orchestra obviously had their wheaties and vitamins.
	🥁 9:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: COVER!
	🥁 9:22pm chresti: Do they have khat in Zaire? Thats a good pick-me-up I hear.
	🥁 9:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kicking out the jams, in other words.
	9:26pm Ike: Very cool.
	9:27pm Flash Strap: ecstatic
	9:27pm Flash Strap: hi there Ike
	9:29pm Flash Strap: @chresti: i wonder what it's like to have a little khat
	🥁 9:29pm WR: Since khat has been mentioned a few times in last couple of days took a look at the wikipedia page for it. It is illegal in all forms in the USA but "In 1980, the WHO classified the plant as a drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence (less than tobacco or alcohol)"
	9:31pm Frog Mover: Damn this is hot!
	9:34pm Flash Strap: orig. released by Ocora as a double cassette, which is the better version from the CD as far as I can tell, since the runtime for everything is longer
	9:35pm Flash Strap: damn now that's a sound
	🥁 9:38pm WR: Never have seen Ocora cassettes, met a guy in the late 70s who had many of their LPs.
	9:39pm Flash Strap: they have so many releases, it's crazy
	🥁 9:41pm chresti: I forget who told me recently that you have to chew a lot of it to feel anything.
	🥁 9:41pm WR: Was curious about the sound, so put in headphones. Wondering if stereo and yes it was, presume it was typical quality equipment of its time, Nagra and a couple of good microphones. Sounded really good, will listen to it again with the headphones.
	🥁 9:42pm chresti: ..and have it with lime (not the fruit) like coca leave chewing.
	9:46pm Franco Twinkie: Flash, I saw Konono#1 play downtown L.A. a few years ago. I was pretty sick, but I went anyway, I mean they don't play around here everyday. I had a fever and I think that added to the experience.
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: hey y'all is the booze all gone? ... any music left?
	9:47pm Little Danny: Massive show, Evan
	🥁 9:50pm WR: The wikipedia page has a lot of detail, no mention of needing something else to help release the active substance, "Its fresh leaves and tops are chewed or, less frequently, dried and consumed as tea, to achieve a state of euphoria and stimulation; it also has anorectic (appetite-reducing) side effects. The leaves or the soft part of the stem can be chewed with either chewing gum or fried peanuts to make it easier to chew. "
	9:51pm Flash Strap: that's amazing, Franco!
	9:51pm Flash Strap: it's feverish music for sure
	9:52pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:52pm Little Danny: Hope y'all can join me: wfmu.org... Thought I'd licked last week's video streaming issues but apparently it's still erroring out for some of ya. Will likely disable after 15 minutes or so if true.
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: they're a few years away from figuring out how to profit from khat
	9:53pm Flash Strap: thanks LD
	🥁 9:53pm chresti: That would be the lime, WR. Calcium carbonate. Thanks Flash, and love Keith Hudson!
	9:53pm Franco Twinkie: I tried, but no one wanted to go with me. After the show I had trouble walking back to my truck.
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: hey Evan sorry i've missed most of the show was driving
	9:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Evan!
	9:55pm TDK60: Good night.
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Uncle Michael's twitch doesn't seem to have issues, Danny, but then he's not playing videos.
	9:55pm Flash Strap: no prob, C., the archives are always there for you
	🥁 9:56pm chresti: TDK60 good night.
	9:56pm Little Danny: @chresti: thanks yeah I'm gonna have to get UM's wisdom
	9:56pm Flash Strap: good night all, please join Scott who'll be in my stead and please rejoin me here in two weeks when i'll be refreshed and playing much Peruvian gold
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan enjoy your time away. and Thanks for hooking us up with Mr. McDowell
	9:59pm Flash Strap: my great pleasure, C.
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: I thought he was saying safe and sound, before I learned it was satan side.
	🥁 10:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: THX
	10:03pm MattfromNewOrleans: Hi everyone. Due to the chat not working in mobile safari, I’ll mostly just be listening.
	🥁 10:14pm WR: oops, time flies, Thank you Evan, hope you can fully enjoy your time off. Thank you for fun and energizing (like khat?, LOL) show tonight.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from July 2, 2020

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Masterfleet	First Voyage "First Voyage" by "Masterfleet"	High on the Sea	Sussex	1973		0:00:56 (Pop-up)
Starship Commander Wooooo Wooooo	Mastership	Mastership	Mastership Records	1981		0:02:00 (Pop-up)
Lyn Christopher	Take Me With You "Take Me With You" by "Lyn Christopher"	Take Me With You / Unrequited 7"	Paramount	1973		0:07:51 (Pop-up)
King Lee! featuring Quintron	Tire Shop (Parts 1 & 2)	Tire Shop 7"	Goner Records	2010		0:10:56 (Pop-up)
Eric Lou Root	Don't Worry (side A excerpt)	Don't Worry	Wortel Production	1987	orig. only 6 copies; reissued Red Light Records	0:18:05 (Pop-up)
Dennis Alcapone / Keith Hudson	Spanish Omega	Dynamic Fashion Way / Spanish Omega 7"	Inbidimts	1970	aka "Spanish Amigo"; toast of Ken Boothe's "Old Fashioned Way"	0:23:48 (Pop-up)
U-Roy / Keith Hudson	Dynamic Fashion Way	Dynamic Fashion Way / Spanish Omega 7"	Inbidimts	1970	toast of Ken Boothe's "Old Fashioned Way"	0:28:11 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Underway "Underway"					0:29:26 (Pop-up)
E. Artemiev, Yu. Bogdanov	Паруса = Voiles	Метаморфозы = Metamorphoses	Мелодия	1980		0:37:29 (Pop-up)
Медео	Охотник, Cюита = Hunter, Suite	Ансамбль «Медео» (Ensemble Medeo)	Мелодия	1985		0:40:35 (Pop-up)
B. Petrov	The Earth's Rotation = Вращение Земли / First Meeting = Первая Встреча	Memory, Rock Ballet = Память, Рок-Балет	Мелодия	1986		0:50:49 (Pop-up)
Sergei Djokanov	The Green Desert "The Green Desert" by "Sergei Djokanov"	The Green Desert	Balkanton	1985	rec. at Bulgarian National Radio	0:55:02 (Pop-up)
The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Choir	Pilentze Pee	Les Mystères Des Voix Bulgaires (Volume 1)	Disques Cellier	1975		0:59:35 (Pop-up)
Holger Czukay	Hollywood Symphony "Hollywood Symphony" by "Holger Czukay"	Movies	Harvest / EMI Electrola	1979		1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Cluster	Hollywood "Hollywood" by "Cluster"	Zuckerzeit	Brain	1974		1:16:46 (Pop-up)
Neu!	Hallogallo "Hallogallo" by "Neu!"	Neu!	Brain	1972		1:21:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Les Metiers et Borneo "Les Metiers et Borneo"					1:30:56 (Pop-up)
Guelewar	Cilss "Cilss" by "Guelewar"	Halleli N'Dakarou	Teranga Beat	2011	rec. live at Canari Club de Kaolack, Senegal, 1972	1:41:01 (Pop-up)
Ifang Bondi	Xaleli Africa "Xaleli Africa" by "Ifang Bondi"	"Saraba"	Disques Griot	1978		1:48:50 (Pop-up)
Karantamba	Titi "Titi" by "Karantamba"	Ndigal	Teranga Beat	2012	rec. live at Sangomar nightclub in Thies, Senegal 1984	1:58:22 (Pop-up)
Unknown Artist	Deoula (Solo de Kora)	Sons Nouveaux D'une Nation Nouvelle – La République de Guinée	Tempo International	1962		2:06:37 (Pop-up)
Orchestre Tout Puissant Likembé Konono Nº1	Mungua-Muanga	Zaïre: Musiques Urbaines À Kinshasa	Ocora	1989	rec. live 1978	2:11:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Bells of My Soul "Bells of My Soul"					2:40:31 (Pop-up)
Alton Ellis	Big Bad Boy "Big Bad Boy" by "Alton Ellis"	Big Bad Boy / Big Bad Boy Version 7"	Mafia	1972	prod. Keith Hudson	2:50:25 (Pop-up)
Don T. Junior / Keith Hudson	Evil Spirit	Satan Side / Evil Spirit 7"	Duke Records	1972	aka Don Drummond	2:52:21 (Pop-up)
Ken Boothe	Old Fashion Way "Old Fashion Way" by "Ken Boothe"	Old Fashion Way / Spanish Omega 7"	Inbidimts	1970	prod. Keith Hudson	2:54:43 (Pop-up)
Keith Hudson	Satan Side "Satan Side" by "Keith Hudson"	Satan Side / Evil Spirit 7"	Duke Records	1972		2:57:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:52pm Flash Strap: hellllllo explorers
	7:00pm doctorjazz: Hellllo, Flash!
	7:00pm passiflora: listening over birdsong in the park
	🥁 7:01pm chresti: Hi Flllash and exxplorers!
	7:02pm Carmichael: Heya Flash and holidayers.
	🥁 7:02pm Aitch: Nice day for a sail.
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! Hello Passiflora & birds! Hi Chresti!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Welcome aboard Carm & Aitch
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: Wooooo! How dooooo, all of you?
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hello James! trying to get my sailin' smooth here, how about yourself
	7:05pm listener james from westwood: Managing as best one can, as always with greater ease with WFMU on in the room!
	🥁 7:08pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kids.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: hiya Rev
	🥁 7:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lotta Disco of late? Summer thing?
	7:10pm Flash Strap: great production on this Lyn Christopher man
	🥁 7:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well if so '73 was ahead of the curve...
	🥁 7:11pm WR: Hi all drummer explorers. Evan, the artwork is sorta like Dali but more raw than anything I remember from him. Seems like something from some one with vocabulary of Dali and Max Ernst or something.
	🥁 7:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Deffo Dali - bit Muralist - Bosch even here or there...
	7:14pm Flash Strap: Hi WR, it's Masson, who was just as big in the movement as Dali or Ernst, so that makes sense; at that time Surrealism was much more collectivist with regards to individual aesthetic as well
	7:15pm Flash Strap: Masson the great proponent of "automatic drawing", hugely influential on Dali's own Paranoiac-critical method
	7:20pm Flash Strap: forgot about this Eric Lou Root for a long time, putting it on again it's still incredibly awesome
	7:21pm Frog Mover: Evening y'all! Nothin like some good Root
	7:21pm Flash Strap: Hey there Frog Mo
	🥁 7:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Interesting ! Amusical Eelektric Gittar abuse - now we're in my little wheelhouse...
	7:23pm TDK60: What's happnin?
	🥁 7:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Interesting re Masson. Cheers.
	7:25pm Flash Strap: Hey TDK!
	7:26pm Flash Strap: @Rev: I think you'd really dig Masson's stuff actually, highly demented
	7:26pm Flash Strap: also demented: that Root guitar abuse, I agree
	7:27pm Flash Strap: "might I remind you, the studio real cloudy"
	7:29pm Little Danny: Hey Flash, hey all
	7:39pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	7:41pm Little Danny: This Soviet electronic ambience is all brand new to me, I wonder what kinda synths they're using?
	7:41pm Flash Strap: I wonder too - that first track was the Synthy-100 though
	7:43pm Little Danny: I'm lovin' it all either way. There's something indefinably '80s Soviet era about it to me, maybe it's the guitar tones
	7:44pm Flash Strap: definitely
	7:44pm Flash Strap: here's the cover for the next selection, speaking of indefinably '80s Soviet era: img.discogs.com...
	7:46pm Frog Mover: Diggin this Soviet funk!
	7:47pm Little Danny: Oh wow yes
	7:47pm Flash Strap: me too froggy
	🥁 7:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Watching 'How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin' (which reportedly even Gorbachev acknowledges) - & the lengths they went to then to create Gittars. They stole Stalinist loudspeakes off poles - &tc. Quite a doc.
	🥁 7:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...earlier decades...
	🥁 7:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Eventually the State just went into the record biz...
	🥁 7:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Before that just getting Music was like Drugs here...
	7:54pm Flash Strap: next up a little synth from Bulgaria: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 7:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ....trying for a Synth / Voix de Bulgare pun but nuthin'...
	7:59pm Flash Strap: there ya go pal
	🥁 7:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It's them!
	8:00pm Little Danny: Is there a music theory name for this kind of (ultra-close?) harmony?
	8:01pm melinda: Hi gang!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: not sure LD, but I'd like to know
	8:03pm Flash Strap: simply one of my very favorite albums, this
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Do they not have their own 'half Eastern' scale - correlating to their unique geography?
	🥁 8:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - intervals...
	8:09pm Flash Strap: Czukay's compositions on this LP meander in this beautiful way, they feel unpredictable to me no matter how many times I've heard them
	8:11pm Flash Strap: of course we have Liebezeit on drums here, but I think on this track we have Czukay on virtually every other instrument
	8:11pm Flash Strap: & editing/producing naturally. tho Conny Plank is credited as an advisor
	🥁 8:15pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Even if they're all you - having to track everything together thru those meanders...
	🥁 8:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...called a Composer I reckon...
	8:17pm TDK60: Groovy stuff.
	🥁 8:19pm chresti: Yeah.
	8:20pm Flash Strap: man this one's a classic for a reason
	8:20pm TDK60: love unusual bass sounds.
	8:21pm Little Danny: Motorik's platonic ideal.
	8:22pm melinda: So good.
	8:22pm Flash Strap: @LD: truly
	🥁 8:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Somehow them calling themselves 'New' has never become ironic...
	8:23pm Little Danny: @RR63: truly a transcendent project, Neu! Beyond reproach in my book.
	8:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, what's Neu!?
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Hi Ken! imagining a cover of What's Neu! Püssykat that's 11 minutes long and has a perfect motorik beat
	8:26pm Flash Strap: a Tom Jones Vocoder album
	8:29pm colin: Great show, really enjoying it. Thanks Ken
	8:30pm Flash Strap: Hi Colin
	🥁 8:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think of Cope calling Stereolab 'French Jazz' & Krautrock pretenders...tho' I am FrancoAmerican & love Jazz & Stereolab.
	8:42pm Flash Strap: crucial use of mini-moog in a lot of Guelewar / Bai Janha stuff. really visceral sound
	8:44pm Flash Strap: Bai Janha, nicknamed "Sweet Fingers" btw
	🥁 8:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: If I were on a track with an ensemble this rhymically intricate but groovy & loose - I would think it a real high point of my life!
	8:47pm Flash Strap: seriously
	🥁 8:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: So together but such an imminent recording.
	8:51pm Flash Strap: I agree, they're so vivid and intense to listen to
	8:54pm Flash Strap: vocals here by Ali Harb, I believe. Guitar by Banha
	8:56pm Flash Strap: it might actually be Papa Touray on vocals. not super familiar with Ifang Bondi's lineup
	🥁 8:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: First exposure to any Vocal remotely comparable probably Hugh Masekala in Monterey Pop film sounding loud & angry but soulful - always blew my mind as a little kid.
	9:02pm Flash Strap: This album is Bai Janha with a group of somewhat unpolished younger musicians, very loose and experimental session. I've seen a a few reviewers deride it's "amateurish" elements but I've always adored it. pulsing with vitality I say
	🥁 9:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah thx to whoever recorded these!
	9:04pm TDK60: This is hopping along. I dig it.
	9:06pm Flash Strap: i love this record so much... i'm loving it more with each minute, this evening
	🥁 9:09pm chresti: I love this kora.
	9:09pm Flash Strap: following this kora solo, a massive super-amplified workout on likembe from Zaire
	9:10pm Flash Strap: @chresti: me too, it's so bloody elegant
	🥁 9:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Should listen to some African music every day. Be very healthy.
	9:11pm Little Danny: This is great
	9:12pm Little Danny: This too is great!
	9:13pm TDK60: I see (saw) some kora guys playing on subway platforms; must be noisy to focus, but most have amps.
	9:15pm Flash Strap: these guys from Zaire generally play for specific tribal events, such as mourning, etc. - depending on the prestige of the family involved, often for as long as a week at a time. truly endurance music. this track is a morning song - instrumental so as to give the singers a little time to rest after singing all night. this particular ensemble actually hails from Angola
	9:17pm Little Danny: GOOD MORNING, ZAIRE!
	9:18pm Flash Strap: crazy homemade amplifier set up, great blown-out guitar mic sound on the likembe, pushed through a wall of six speakers
	9:19pm Flash Strap: love the cover of this cassette: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 9:19pm Aitch: A lovely winter morning here in Sydney, enjoying the show as I work.
	9:20pm TDK60: Well, this energetic orchestra obviously had their wheaties and vitamins.
	🥁 9:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: COVER!
	🥁 9:22pm chresti: Do they have khat in Zaire? Thats a good pick-me-up I hear.
	🥁 9:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Kicking out the jams, in other words.
	9:26pm Ike: Very cool.
	9:27pm Flash Strap: ecstatic
	9:27pm Flash Strap: hi there Ike
	9:29pm Flash Strap: @chresti: i wonder what it's like to have a little khat
	🥁 9:29pm WR: Since khat has been mentioned a few times in last couple of days took a look at the wikipedia page for it. It is illegal in all forms in the USA but "In 1980, the WHO classified the plant as a drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence (less than tobacco or alcohol)"
	9:31pm Frog Mover: Damn this is hot!
	9:34pm Flash Strap: orig. released by Ocora as a double cassette, which is the better version from the CD as far as I can tell, since the runtime for everything is longer
	9:35pm Flash Strap: damn now that's a sound
	🥁 9:38pm WR: Never have seen Ocora cassettes, met a guy in the late 70s who had many of their LPs.
	9:39pm Flash Strap: they have so many releases, it's crazy
	🥁 9:41pm chresti: I forget who told me recently that you have to chew a lot of it to feel anything.
	🥁 9:41pm WR: Was curious about the sound, so put in headphones. Wondering if stereo and yes it was, presume it was typical quality equipment of its time, Nagra and a couple of good microphones. Sounded really good, will listen to it again with the headphones.
	🥁 9:42pm chresti: ..and have it with lime (not the fruit) like coca leave chewing.
	9:46pm Franco Twinkie: Flash, I saw Konono#1 play downtown L.A. a few years ago. I was pretty sick, but I went anyway, I mean they don't play around here everyday. I had a fever and I think that added to the experience.
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: hey y'all is the booze all gone? ... any music left?
	9:47pm Little Danny: Massive show, Evan
	🥁 9:50pm WR: The wikipedia page has a lot of detail, no mention of needing something else to help release the active substance, "Its fresh leaves and tops are chewed or, less frequently, dried and consumed as tea, to achieve a state of euphoria and stimulation; it also has anorectic (appetite-reducing) side effects. The leaves or the soft part of the stem can be chewed with either chewing gum or fried peanuts to make it easier to chew. "
	9:51pm Flash Strap: that's amazing, Franco!
	9:51pm Flash Strap: it's feverish music for sure
	9:52pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:52pm Little Danny: Hope y'all can join me: wfmu.org... Thought I'd licked last week's video streaming issues but apparently it's still erroring out for some of ya. Will likely disable after 15 minutes or so if true.
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: they're a few years away from figuring out how to profit from khat
	9:53pm Flash Strap: thanks LD
	🥁 9:53pm chresti: That would be the lime, WR. Calcium carbonate. Thanks Flash, and love Keith Hudson!
	9:53pm Franco Twinkie: I tried, but no one wanted to go with me. After the show I had trouble walking back to my truck.
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: hey Evan sorry i've missed most of the show was driving
	9:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Evan!
	9:55pm TDK60: Good night.
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: Uncle Michael's twitch doesn't seem to have issues, Danny, but then he's not playing videos.
	9:55pm Flash Strap: no prob, C., the archives are always there for you
	🥁 9:56pm chresti: TDK60 good night.
	9:56pm Little Danny: @chresti: thanks yeah I'm gonna have to get UM's wisdom
	9:56pm Flash Strap: good night all, please join Scott who'll be in my stead and please rejoin me here in two weeks when i'll be refreshed and playing much Peruvian gold
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan enjoy your time away. and Thanks for hooking us up with Mr. McDowell
	9:59pm Flash Strap: my great pleasure, C.
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: I thought he was saying safe and sound, before I learned it was satan side.
	🥁 10:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: THX
	10:03pm MattfromNewOrleans: Hi everyone. Due to the chat not working in mobile safari, I’ll mostly just be listening.
	🥁 10:14pm WR: oops, time flies, Thank you Evan, hope you can fully enjoy your time off. Thank you for fun and energizing (like khat?, LOL) show tonight.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from July 2, 2020

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